Yes! I finally got to the 2nd chapter now! Well, you all know the disclaimer so I am not going to bother with it now (me lazy =P)

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Love Love Aishiteru,

Pink Yuki

Futari no Merry-Go-Round
by Pink Yuki  

Chapter Two - Game

Mikagami held her tightly. "I think I am a little tipsy right now, do you mind giving me a little support?" The ensui wielder whispered in her ears.

"Are you okay? Mi-chan?" Fuuko was bewildered that the usual confident, cold Mikagami was talking so softly to her, not to mention holding her. 

"Yeah, just that Kurei and Recca developed a sudden interest in wine tasting and forced me to go along with them. If it's only Recca I could just walked away, but I don't dare turning my back on two flame masters at once." Mikagami said with his hand twirling with Fuuko's hair.

Fuuko blushed slightly but enjoyed the feeling. "You have nice hair, Fuuko. Don't ever use Clinique's shampoo okay, it would harm your hair." Fuuko let out a slight laughter. That's the Mikagami she knew, always obsessed with his hair.

"Mi-chan, so how have you been lately?"

"It's okay. I got offers from quite a few universities, but I haven't decided on where I want to go yet. I wonder which one Mifuyu would choose?"

"The one you like the best."

"Then it would be too far away. I won't be able to see all the people here for a while." Mikagami slightly pondered, but the alcohol in his system was still affecting him. "Not that I want to see the sea-monkey or the gorilla anyway, but I like shopping with Kurei and converse with him." He giggled.

"Ano… Mi-chan? Are you gay?" Fuuko asked innocently.

"NANI???" Mikagami jumped at Fuuko's question. The alcohol in his blood seemed to evaporate within an instance. "I am 100% male, physically and mentally."

Fuuko was embarrassed by her misjudgment and further more by the weird stares from everyone around them. *Gee… I didn't know Mi-chan of all people would ever make a scene.* She thought.

"You want to get a drink? I am kind of thirsty right now." Fuuko quickly diverted the topic and dragged Mikagami to the bar's direction. Mikagami kept saying that he is 100% male along the way.

Fuuko found the two flame casters behind the bar, with Kaoru, Joker, Neon, Miki and Yanagi sitting around the bar table. "Go Neon-sama, go!" Fuuko heard Miki's cheer and peeped though the crowd. Neon and Kaoru quickly gulped down the flaming liquid. "Neon-neechan, I win!" the little boy grinned and wiped his mouth with his sleeves. Neon grabbed Joker and kissed him square on the mouth.

"What is that? And Kaoru! You are severely underage!" Fuuko turned to Yanagi, who was cheering for Kaoru while Kaoru just stuck his tongue out. "Oh, Fuuko-san. They were just playing drinking games." The healer smiled sweetly. "You two want to join?"

"Sure." Mikagami looked a little sober now and proceed to stand behind Kaoru, still holding Fuuko's hand unconsciously.

"New challengers!" Recca happily screamed. "Let's see… who wants to play with Mikagami? Fuuko can wait for the next round since she doesn't know the rules yet."

"I will." Kurei smiled and started mixing the drinks.

Fuuko was totally confused about the game." The game is basically two people drinking against each other, and the one who lost have to do something the winner stated." Miki quickly informed Fuuko. "It was really fun before, when all the Jyushinshuus were here. You have to see Joker-san's face when he had to kiss Mikoto!" Everyone laughed except for the cursing Joker.

"You have to kiss Yanagi." Mikagami suddenly burst out.

"Niichan! Don't you dare lose! If you kiss my hime I am going to burn you with all hachiryu!" Recca shouted immediately. Mikagami just smirked alongside.

"Don't worry, since when did I ever lose to Mikagami?" Kurei eyed his brother with a hint of laughter in his voice. "Just do your job, Recca."

"What drink is that?" Fuuko asked Yanagi, who was blushing furiously at how Recca was protecting her. "Oh, it's flaming Lamborghini."

Recca skillfully poured the liquor down and summon Saiha (wonder what the hachiryu thought of this?) to light it before it could reach the glass. Mikagami and Kurei were drinking as fast as they could with the crowd cheering around them. Recca being the loudest.

"I win." Kurei smiled at the growling Mikagami. "See, I never lose to Mikagami!" Kurei raised a V-sign to Recca, who nodded happily. "What are you going to make him do now, niichan?"

Unaware of the crowd forming around them, people were shouting out their suggestions.

"Call Duo Maxwell and tell him he would take Heero away from him!"

"Call Hiei and tell him he loves him more than Kurama ever does!"

"Kiss Fujimaru!"

"Let Domon braids his hair!"

"Just make him bake cookies since we don't have much snacks left." Fuuko raised her voice to the suggestions. She didn't think that ensui would do any good in front of a Gundam, nor did she think Mikagami would appreciate having weird plants growing out of his body.

"Cookies! That's a good idea." Kaoru licked his lips. "Mikagami niichan bakes the best cookies in the world!"

"Cookies it is then. Off you go, Mikagami!" Kurei smiled. "Fuuko, why don't you go and keep an eye on him also? I don't want my kitchen to burn because of a drunk man."

"Okay." Fuuko stood and followed the giggling water wielder out of the room.

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"Mi-chan, at least this is better than calling up the Gundam pilots, right?" Fuuko sat herself on the kitchen table. "Come on, you can't be angry at me for this? I have never tasted your cooking before also since Kaoru always eats all of them before I could reach one."

"Hmmp." The water wielder looked at her and put the dough into the oven. "Time it, 30 minutes."

"Fine, be that way." Fuuko set the time on her Baby-G, looked up and noticed Mikagami's face was no more than a few inches from her, with arms enclosing her around the kitchen table.

"You still have that?" Mikagami looked at her watch.

"Yeah, you guys got me this for my birthday, remember? My 17th birthday present." Fuuko felt weird as she could clearly mark Mikagami's breathe on her face.

"Yes, I remember." Mikagami suddenly put his head on Fuuko's shoulder. "I picked it."

"Ano… Mi-chan?" Fuuko was bewildered by Mikagami's actions. *This is my teammate, for goodness' sake. And he only wants some support since he is still drunk. Stop blushing, Fuuko!* She was trying hard to suppress the redness rising from her cheeks.

"We missed you." Mikagami murmured on Fuuko's neck, which gave her a burning sensation. *Come on now, Fuuko. He is DRUNK!* Fuuko stiffened and slowly raised a hand soothing Mikagami's back. "I am back." She softly said.

"I missed you." Mikagami put his arms around Fuuko's waist, still murmuring on her neck. *Now this must be an illusion, he was just saying we missed you, where the heck did I hear I missed you from?* Fuuko couldn't stop herself from blushing and remained silent.

'beep beep beep' Fuuko straightened up and stopped her watch. *Gee, I was holding Mi-chan for 30 minutes? He must be real drunk not to protest.* "Hey Mi-chan? Let's check on the cookies." Now that her redness subsided, she pushed Mikagami up and proceeded to the oven. "They look wonderful."

Mikagami silently put the cookies on a plate and gave one to Fuuko. "Try it."

Fuuko savored the white chocolate chip cookie and looked up, "The best I have ever tasted." She smiled.

Mikagami smiled and motioned Fuuko to go back to the party.

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When Fuuko and Mikagami arrived the living room, nearly half the people were on the floor. The kuu team, except for Saicho and Misora who were drunk beyond belief on the recliner, were a dead pile on the floor. Domon and Aki have blacked out on the couch. Joker was trying his luck on the half-drunken Neon, and got a whack on his head as Neon told him to wait for another century.

"You are back!" Kaoru seemed unaffected and bounced towards them, "Cookies!" the anki wielder grabbed three and forced them down his throat.

"Hey you two, come and play again! The kuu team was defeated in a second. Not much fun really." Recca shouted at them and ran over for the cookies.

"Fuuko's turn." Yanagi smiled. From the redness on her face, Fuuko could tell that the healer was rather tipsy already. "I will drink with you."

"Fine." Fuuko slipped into the seat beside her best friend. "How many did you drink before I was back?"

"Just six. I beat Misora six times in a row."

"SIX? Yanagi, I didn’t know you handle liquor that well…" Fuuko was dumbstruck.

"Okay ladies, on your set now." Kurei smiled at the two of them and put the glasses down. "Kurenai!" A small action figure sized fire came from Kurei's finger and lit the liquid as it flowed down.

Fuuko was trying her best to gulp down the liquor, but it was stronger than she anticipated. A moment later, she heard the healer giggled an "I win."

Fuuko gulped down the last mouthful and looked at her friend, "So what do you want me to do now? Call up Quatre Winner and confess how cute I think he is?" Fuuko laughed.

Yanagi thought a second before a wicked grin came onto her face. "Kiss Mikagami-senpai for 30 seconds."

"Nani? Yanagi, stop joking."

"Rules are rules, my friend." Yanagi smiled at her embarrassed friend.

"Just do it. It's only thirty seconds." Joker sat down next to Fuuko, "I had to kiss Mikoto for a whole minute!"

"Besides, Mikagami wasn't protesting. He never remembers what he did when he was drunk anyway. We have had that experience before. We made him dress up in Neon's clothes and took a picture of him, he didn't remember it at all until we showed him the picture!" Kurei and Recca laughed as they recalled the incident.

Fuuko turned around and put her hands on Mikagami's face, slowly she moved her face forward. *Well, at least he won't remember at all.* She thought as she closed her eyes.

Suddenly Mikagami reached down and covered Fuuko's lips with his. Fuuko's eyes opened abruptly. Mikagami's left hands had encircled her slim waist, while his right hand rested behind her neck for support. Mikagami kissed her passionately and nibbled on her lower lips every now and then. Fuuko felt the world spin around her, she closed her eyes and started to kiss back. She stopped when Kurei announced that thirty seconds were over.

Fuuko looked up at Mikagami, whose eyes were so passionate that it burnt holes in her. She blushed and pulled away from his grip, sitting down on the bar stool once again drinking the whatever-it-is in front of her.

"Now that's what I call passionate." Yanagi eyed Recca and grinned. "Recca, maybe you should start taking lessons from Mikagami-senpai?" Everyone laughed and Recca whined.

"Oh damn!" Koganei suddenly cried out. "It's 4 o'clock already. Kurei niichan, aren't we going to help Kagero-san in her store tomorrow? We will have less than 5 hours of sleep even if we drop dead now!"

Kurei sweatdropped. "We do, don't we?" He looked at Kaoru and the latter nodded. "Damn! Party's over! I have got to sleep now!" Both Kurei and Koganei dashed for the door, when Kurei all of a sudden stopped and turned to the crowd. "Neon and Joker, just settled everyone who wanted to stay into the guest rooms, okay?" With that he ran.

"I never knew niichan is a sprinter." Recca was still looking at the door, "He could have won the Olympics with that speed! Oh well, whatever. Since the party is over, I am going to go sleep too." He yawned.

"Hime, you can have the room next to mine… Joker, would you drag the Kuu's to the spare rooms on the left wing? Thanks. Neon and Miki, can you settle Saicho, Misora, Domon, and Aki? Thanks." Recca took his leadership role and started settling everyone in. "Mikagami and Fuuko, are you two staying?" He turned to the very bewildered Fuuko and the absolutely spaced out Mikagami.

"Yeah, I guess so. I can't drive at this state anyway." Mikagami seemed to sober up a little. "I'll take the room next to Kurei's, is that okay?"

"Well, Kaoru would be staying there tonight, since they have to go help Kachan early tomorrow." Recca thought for a second. "I guess you have to take Kaoru's room. And Fuuko?"

"I guess I would stay also, it's not very nice to wake dousan and Ganko at this time of the night." Fuuko looked over to Mikagami. *Stop thinking about him Fuuko, it was just a kiss, a kiss he won't even remember!* Fuuko looked back at Recca.

"Well, then you have to take Ganko's old bedroom. It's next to Koganei's, I guess Mikagami can take you there." Recca shrugged and yawned. "Gee I am suddenly tired now, see you guys in the morning k?" Recca turned and walked out.

"Well, Kaoru's room is on the third floor." Mikagami picked up a beer from the fridge before he grabbed Fuuko's wrist and walked out of the living room door.

"Mi-chan, I can walk on my own you know." Fuuko slightly panicked and tried to loosen Mikagami's grip.

"I know you can, but I don't know if I can." Mikagami turned his head slightly and took another mouthful of beer.

"If you stop drinking then there is a chance you can get your ass up the stairs by yourself." Fuuko murmured at the depth of her throat.

"I have to drink." Mikagami led the two of them through the hallway on the third floor.

"Why?" Fuuko was plain confused and was starting to feel tired, they have reached the door of Ganko's room when she turned and asked.

"Because…" Mikagami held his body up by putting one arm on the door, his other arm touches Fuuko's face slightly. "Because I have been wanting to tell you how much I miss you." He lowered his lips to an astonished Fuuko's forehead.

"Mi-chan?" *this has to be hallucination. Freezer boy? Miss me?* Fuuko's mind was all jumbled up, and before she could say anything, Mikagami kissed her softly on the lips.

Fuuko felt electricity going down her spine. Her legs are getting wobbly, and her mind seemed to have abandoned her. It's only when Mikagami pulled away and said goodnight that she straightened up and went into her room without a second glance at the water wielder.

Fuuko lied on the bed. *Neon couldn't be talking about him, could she? They don't even know each other that well. Plus…* Fuuko was twisting and turning on the bed. "He likes girls that are gentle and sweet, like Yanagi." She whispered to herself before she closed her eyes for a dreamless sleep.

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